Designed for archival of Big Data, the StorNext AEL Archives are a family of high-capacity, cost-effective archive solutions with automated, policy-based storage tiering and automatic media integrity validation. These tiered storage solutions ensures that your valuable data is protected and accessible over time. This unique appliance tightly integrates Quantum hardware and StorNext Storage Manager software to deliver a reliable, self-monitoring and self-healing, high-capacity archive intended for the long-term storage of near-line content.
Key Features and Benefits
- Seamless solution, simple to deploy - Unified StorNext archiving product
- Automated tiering saves money and reduces administration – Storage tiering automatically migrates data based on user access
- Self-healing solution – EDLM policies automatically copy data on suspect media to new media
- Reduced management – Automated data tiering, tape data integrity checking and self-healing
- Ultimate TCO with slot based pricing model – Increase capacity with each new tape technology release, with no additional software license fees (i.e. LTO-5 to LTO-6)
- World-class support from one vendor – All software, hardware and support come from the experts at Quantum
- Capacity-on-Demand growth – Simplifies storage growth by scaling quickly and easily
Overview
By combining the StorNext File System capabilities with the StorNext AEL, customers can store frequently-accessed data on high-performance storage and move seldom-accessed data to inexpensive tape media that requires very little power, cooling, or floor space. StorNext AEL includes the Extended Data Life Management (EDLM) feature that tests and verifies the media in the archive and provides health reports for all cartridges. If EDLM identifies a suspect tape cartridge, it automatically copies the data on the original cartridge to a new cartridge. EDLM is the industry's only feature that is specifically designed for archive and disaster recovery applications. The StorNext AEL also utilizes a slot-based pricing model that guarantees investment protection over the long-term storage of the data. As tape media capacities increase from one generation to another, the capacity of the StorNext AEL increases, making the initial investment affordable and its long-term TCO unbeatable.
